Episode 10: Boom Crunch

From ABC.com: Susan comes up with a plan to help Katherine; Orson and Bree come to an agreement; a plane crashes on Wisteria Lane.

The Plane

The plane incident is the climax of the episode and the season so far. Throughout this episode, the storyline references Jeff Bix, the pilot, and his wife, Daphne. Basically, they are fighting about: getting a divorce, who gets what, etc. Jeff is just “waiting for God to end his suffering.” Which happened surprisingly quickly. He has a heart attack while the couple is up in the air, and Daphne, who has never flown a plane before, can’t find any place to land the plane except for in a familiar neighborhood.

Bree

While Orson is eating breakfast, Bree drops the  bomb: “Sorry to start your day on a sober note, but I’m filing for divorce.” As she pulls out the pictures of him with the convict, Orson is shocked that Bree never realized he was bluffing about sending her to jail for fraud. This is actually pathetically adorable. Orson loves Bree so much that he never would have turned her in to the police. As if he’s trying to keep near for one more minute, Orson says, “These scones you made are delicious.  I’ll miss them.” Bree looks close to tears, but she still walks away.

Bree calls Karl to tell him the good news. Of course, Orson happens to be standing in the doorway. Awkward. Bree won’t tell him whom she’s having the affair with. Probably a good decision since he did go to jail. Bree promises Orson that she won’t let the affair become public and embarrass him. As Orson said, “You must write an etiquette book for adulterers.”

At the yearly Wisteria Christmas party (which we’ve never seen on DH before), Karl reveals that he has a plane flying over the party as her gift, his attempt to be more “romantic.” Honestly, Karl, that’s just cheesy. Bree, of course, is appalled at this, and fears for Orson’s sensitive feelings. Karl tries to stop it, but the plane is already in the air. When Orson sees Bree talking to Karl, he just assumes Karl is trying to solicit a business deal.

Karl decides to do the right thing and tell Orson that he had an affair with Bree. So, Karl takes Orson into a Christmas themed structure called “Santa’s House”  to talk. When Karl tells Orson about his relationship with Bree, Orson punches him twice (which looked totally fake but hilarious, nonetheless). Karl grabs him on the cuff of his neck and throws him onto a beanbag. Then, Orson hits Karl with a giant candy cane. Male equivalent of a cat fight? We think so.

Bree hears the fight and goes in to see her current and former lovers having a major throw down. Next thing we know, the plane has hit Santa’s House.

Susan and Katherine

An ambulance pulls up to Katherine’s house, and as usual, the nosy neighbors gather outside to see what happened now.  When the stretcher rolls out of her house, Katherine dramatically lifts a finger and slowly points to Mike as if to say, “He did it!”  Katherine, please, just leave Wisteria before you tear apart the Delfinos. Mike, who just now remembers that his fingerprints are on the knife, realizes that he’s in for it.

Susan goes to the hospital, hoping that she can convince the delusional Katherine that Mike didn’t stab her.  She looks in Katherine’s room and sees that she’s on the phone with someone—Dylan, her daughter.  After Katherine hangs up, Susan walks in hesitantly, holding a teddy bear that her lawyer Bob told her to give Katherine as a sort of peace offering.  After seeing that Katherine’s alright (physically anyway), Susan cuts to the chase and tells her that she can’t accuse Mike of stabbing her.  Katherine grins and says, “The man you just married turned out to be a maniac.”  Um, false, Katherine.  You’re the psycho maniac here.

Katherine continues to swear that Mike stabbed her out of jealousy. “I told him I was in love with another man and he flew into a rage.”  By this point, we’re surprised that there’s anything left to the teddy bear Susan’s still holding.  That’s a pretty impressive chokehold she has on the bear. I wonder if she learned it in self-defense class last week?  Seeing the anger in Susan’s eyes, Katherine presses her luck further by saying, “It’s flattering to go that far to keep me from someone else.”  Only in your dreams, Katherine.  Doesn’t she remember last week that Mike told her he didn’t care enough about her to stab her?

Susan’s going to save Mike no matter what, and even the lawyer looks surprised at the lengths to which she’ll go to. She calls Dylan Mayfair and tells her to fly in, regardless of what Katherine may have told her daughter about staying away.  Dylan arrives, completely confused about what has happened.  Apparently, crazy ol’ Katherine has been lying to her daughter for months, telling her stories about her marriage to Mike and how their life together is perfect.  Susan straightens out the story, explaining to Dylan that her mother, unfortunately, has some serious issues.

Susan and Dylan visit Katherine, and Susan tells her that they want to help. We applaud Susan for being the bigger person by saying this. In addition, she looks genuinely concerned.  Katherine, on the other hand, goes where we’ve never seen her go before.  Katherine tells Dylan that she wished she had not come. She proceeds to completely break down.  We were wrong to have thought she had already lost her mind.  Tonight, she goes psycho, and nurses have to hold her down to keep her from lashing out at Susan or any other person standing by.

We actually don’t want to see Katherine leave.We love to hate her!  It’s not like she would be able to win Mike back anytime soon.  And Wisteria Lane just wouldn’t be the same without her madness.

Gaby and Lynette

The Scavos are racing against time. It’s only a matter of a few months before the twins are due and neither parent has a job anymore.  What’s a mother of five and counting to do?  Lynette’s great idea: apologize again.

Too bad that right before Lynette visits Gaby, Carlos informs Gaby that he could lose his job over this lawsuit.  Isn’t this an interesting turn of events?  Furious, probably only because that means no more pairs of Jimmy Choos, Gaby refuses to forgive Lynette yet again.  That’s got us wondering—shouldn’t Gaby be nice to the woman who could force her husband to lose his job?  Maybe if Carlos was smart, he’d think about rehiring this determined (and pregnant) worker.

During the Christmas Belles singing performance of “Silent Night” at the holiday party, Lynette and Gaby (ever the fashionista in her cute silver shirt) exchange some nasty words—which everyone can hear—and start the second cat fight of the episode.  It doesn’t seem as if they’ll ever speak again, but then in an instant everything changes.

The plane comes crashing through the party, taking out everyone (well, we only see Mona get swept away) in its path.  Unsuspecting Celia is standing right in the pathway, and Lynette pulls her to safety at the last second.  If that heroic move doesn’t get Lynette rehired on the spot, Carlos just doesn’t deserve her.

Angie
The Bolens do not have insurance, and struggle to explain why they don’t to the nurses at the hospital. So Nurse Mona, in all of her infinite wisdom, said that she knows that they’re in the Witness Protection Program. The Bolens appear to be relieved when Mona confronts them with this idea.  They confirm that they’re part of the WPP, which means that they’re obviously lying because no way would the Bolens just reveal a secret that easily. But seriously, Mona, even if it was true, you can’t just ask them! Apparently, Mona is racist against Italian people. She “figured out” their lives because of their ancestry. That’s cute. Angie, playing along with Mona’s theory, says, “You can’t say anything. Because if you do, we’re going to have you whacked.” Silence, then awkward laugh.

Mona is driving Danny home from the hospital. We’d just like to let you know that Danny has beautiful eyes. Anyway, Mona tells Danny she knows everything. Turns out, she doesn’t know the half of it. “Ever since 9/11, the feds are hardcore on any terrorist stuff,” Danny says to Mona. Say what? First of all, go to Siberia or some other faraway place right now, terrorist Angie. This is America, greatest country on the planet. But this piece of information completely caught us off guard. It’s a great storyline that has never been explored in the show.

When he gets home, Danny tells Angie about his little mistake, and Angie tries to keep Mona from blabbing. Mona, who hates her job as a nurse, quits because of all the stories she hears. For now, she is going to blackmail the Bolands for $67,000 to pay off her mortgage. So basically that subhuman, heartless creature is selling out the safety of America for her mortgage. Oh, look who else is going to Siberia.

At the Christmas party, Angie tries to explain to Mona that all she has is $10,000 and Angie’s wedding ring. But Mona said she needs the rest by tomorrow.

The plan winds up taking out Mona as it barrels through the party. So we’re guessing Angie’s secret is safe for now?

Predictions for next week
There are no previews for the next episode. But the hand hanging out of the window of “Santa’s House.” It’s a left hand without a ring and is pretty feminine looking. It could be Bree’s hand, but we doubt she died. Maybe just seriously injured?

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